[Plone-NGOs] eCampaigning Tool released

[Duane Raymond]

Hi,

Today we made the first formal release of the "eCampaigning Tool"
product for Plone.  This allows the set-up and management of
advocacy actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. You
can download the alpha at:
http://plone.org/products/ecampaigning-tool/

What we really need now is someone good at CSS to help us with
the action form layouts.  Any volunteers?

This is stable but there are a number of minor issues that only
come up in advanced usage, and some enhancements we want to make
before final release...plus it needs YOUR feedback. It runs on
both Plone 2.1 and 2.5.

This tool evolved out of my frustration (while eCampaigning
Manager at Oxfam GB and since then) with existing advocacy tools
(mostly proprietary) which didn't enable me to implement best
practice techniques for getting the best result for the campaign.
In the eCampaigning Tool, this is best demonstrated through
'smart steps' - combinations of different settings with
conditional content based on session or submitted data (e.g.
present different options on a thank-you page based on if they
opted-in or not).

Documentation (including an 'Editor Guide' is available at:
http://fairsay.com/labs/ectool/docs/?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=e
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(note this was written for version 0.1.9 and thus is in the
process of being updated - but is mostly still valid)

Anyway - try it out, join the list, give us feedback, help us
with programming, design and documentation and let's create a
tool for effective campaigning.

Cheers,

Duane

PS - and thanks to Saffe who put in some incredible work on the
programming side and was very patient with my extensive feature
requests - thanks to him this is already a very good tool in our
opinion :-)

PPS - I also just launched a blog with the first articles
focusing on a review of advocacy campaigning in 2006. See more at
http://fairsay.com/blog?utm_source=pngo&utm_medium=emp


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